Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test (Bender Gestalt II)

Purpose: Assess visual-motor integration functioning

Age: 4-85 years

Time: 10-15 minutes

The Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test (Bender-Gestalt II) is a brief assessment of visual-motor integration that may provide interpretive information about an individual's development and neuropsychological functioning. 

The Bender-Gestalt II is ideal for use as a first measure in an extended psychological battery. With its simple design and administration, the Bender-Gestalt II is an effective and non-threatening warm-up to more challenging assessments. It may be used as a screener for neuropsychological impairment.

The Bender II consists of a series of template cards, each displaying a unique figure. The individual is asked to draw each figure as he or she observes it. The design card is not removed until the drawing is complete.

The Bender-Gestalt II offers insight into:

• ADHD
• Mental Retardation
• Giftedness
• Learning Disabilities
• Autism
• Alzheimer's Disease

Key Features

• Supplemental tests of simple motor and perceptual ability help identify specific visual-motor deficits
• New recall procedure to assess visual-motor memory provides a more comprehensive assessment of visual-motor skills
• Comprehensive testing observations including physical demeanour, drawing technique, test-taking behaviour, and attitude
• New norms for Copy and Recall procedures based on 4,000 cases
• Co-normed with the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5).